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R is a powerful language for data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, statistics. Originally developed for statistical programming, it is now one of the most popular languages in data science.

If you are a database professional (Data Engineer, DBA, Database Developer, etc.) and looking to leverage the power of R to analyze and visualize data in relational databases (RDBMSes), Big Data U (BDU) has a free, self-paced online course to get you going quickly:…

Just like a high performance sports car, a database requires some checks to keep it running optimally. This article is broken down into tasks or checks that can be run at different intervals on your DB2 LUW database, to do just that. Read more

IBM's conversations with clients have revealed a consistent challenge across several organizations – the need to drive incremental value from existing infrastructure investments. If you are looking for innovative ways to leverage your investments and the ability to deploy workloads across on premise and in the cloud without loss of performance in a secure manner, IBM is hosting a Webinar on June 14th

I wanted to share with you details of the DB2 Webinar on 14th June at…

Matt Huras - Chief Architect, DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows has shared this great article discussing some of the high-value, core advances in security, availability and performance with the recently announced DB2 11.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

This article is Part 1 of a 2-part Blog series. The article discusses the following

Operational monitoring of system performance

Operational monitoring refers to collecting key system performance metrics at periodic intervals over time. This information gives you critical data to refine that initial configuration to be more tailored to your requirements, and also prepares you to address new problems that might appear on their own or following software upgrades, increases in data or user volumes, or new application deployments.... …

Lots of new content is available on www.ibmbluhub.com, a site that is focused on BLU Acceleration in-memory computing for fast reporting and analytics from the transaction environment or a warehouse environment. Here is a summary of some content you may want to check out:

IBM is one of the many companies who manufacture server line of products. IBM DB2 is one of the most commonly used server type. For each of the major operating systems, IBM has a specific DB2 product. However, in the recent past it has been seen that IBM has developed a platform-independent server product. In addition to the relational model, it supports object-based features and non-relational structures like XML.

The DB2 performs various management related operations like create,… Continue

This post is useful for DB2 developers, administrators, database architects to learn how to access Oracle database stored procedures from DB2 database sources.

A federated system is a special type of distributed database management system (DBMS). A federated system consists of a DB2® database system that operates as a federated server, a database that acts as the federated database, one or more data sources, and clients (users and applications) that access the…